[HPFGU-Movie] nonsexual Lupin

[Sherry Garfio]

--- Valerie Flowe <valerie.flowe at verizon.net> wrote:

> I wonder though; how close could Remus and Sirius have been, if Sirius
> mistrusted Remus to the point where he'd put dork-boy Pettigrew in the
> critically important position of the Potters' fidelis (sp?) keeper. And then
> Remus was so quick to believe along with everyone else that Sirius was the
> one who tipped Voldemort off to the Potters whereabouts? I don't get it.

For the first part of your question, Sirius and James simply underestimated
Pettigrew.  They switched to him because he was least likely to be suspected by
Voldemort to be entrusted with this information (in their view; obviously they
didn't know he was already working for the big V).  They may have even been
subject to a latent werewolf prejudice; as somebody else pointed out, James and
Sirius have grown up with this bias, so they're not totally immune to it.  They
didn't know who to trust, Sirius didn't even trust *himself*, so they chose the
friend they thought Voldemort would least expect.

For the second part, Remus didn't know about the switch, and it probably never
occurred to him that his two best friends would switch without telling him.  He
believed Sirius was the one because as far as he knew, Sirius was the only
person it could possibly have been.

Sherry


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"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."
    -- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire




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